--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have heard that people who want to improve their marriages should > think of it as a verb, "marriaging", which includes a lot of behaviors > that keep it alive. I view the word cult the same way, as a set of > specific manipulative behaviors that are designed to remove critical > choice. That is what is so great about the information about these > behaviors being so common among people who still do TM. It restores > choices because it takes a lot of the steam out of the techniques' > effectiveness. > > When I was into TM I had no problem believing the Moonies were a cult, > or Jim Jones' group. The only counterargument to the TM view that I > heard was the fundamentalist Christians, and that didn't seem to make > any sense. I didn't have the information about the specific > techniques of thought reform so that I could decide for myself if they > were being used at different levels of the TM organization. Everyone > relates to this information differently according to their own > experience. Labeling TM as a cult doesn't do any good if you aren't > looking at the specific techniques so you can decide if they apply. > > For me I couldn't deny that the descriptions fit my experience as a > full time TMer. But that didn't make me stop TM. It just made me feel > separate from the organization and made me stop teaching. But the > specific information about thought reform helped me understand my > involvement better. Now this information is out there for anyone who > is interested and I think this is one of the reasons that the movement > has dwindled so low in numbers. > > Deciding that the TM org uses manipulative techniques doesn't mean you > have to leave your own path of spirituality as so many on this group > demonstrate. >
Here's the significant difference between TM and other cults. If you just practise the TM Technique, there is zero cultiness about it. Indeed, it is the antithesis of a cult. But if you're involved in the TMO, you are, by implication, involved in a cult...because if you stay in it after being exposed to the madness and insanity of it, the only explanation is that you would have to be in a cult to stay. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
